Puccini’s celebrated opera tells the story of four penniless bohemians into whose lives love, jealously and death make a sudden appearance. Tenor Vittorio Grigolo inhabited the role of a young and passionate poet and playwright, […]
TV | Star-Crossed – A desperate attempt at an extra-terrestrial Twilight
Congratulations go to the production team of Star-Crossed for their valiant attempts to sandwich not only every American high-school stereotype, but also every alien-invasion cliché into a mere forty-two minutes. It was a heroic task […]
Film | Locke – Tom Hardy shines in this one-man show
Image: IM Global, Shoebox Films 4/5 Stars For a man who started off his career writing the script for Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Steven Knight has come a long way in the world […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the week – Toy Story, The Graduate & Terms of Endearment
Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are here! This week we hang out with a bunch of toys, try to escape from a burning building and get seduced by Mrs. Robinson. MONDAY – The Towering […]
Film | Captain America: The Winter Soldier – surpassing its predecessor
The second of three Marvel films to hit cinemas in 2014, The Winter Soldier follows everyone’s favourite defrosted World War Two veteran as he tries to adapt to life after the events of The Avengers […]
Film | Twenty Feet from Stardom – a documentary in the right key
They are a voice, but not usually a name. The role of the backup singer is explored in this fascinating new documentary by director Morgan Neville. In it, we have interviews with musical icons such […]
TV | New Worlds – A history that lacks the drama
New Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to the 2008 drama The Devil’s Whore, in which Andrea Riseborough and John Simm appeared as a 17th-century pair whose beliefs drew them right to the epicentre of the […]
Art | Ian Kiaer: Tooth House – challenging canonised standards of how we view Art
This spring the Henry Moore institute presents Ian Kiaer’s Tooth House, an insight into the surreal world of Kiaer as he subtly challenges the art institutions canonised standards of how we view Art. Having previously […]
Film | Under the Skin gets under your skin
Under the Skin is a beautiful, sinister, and lovingly crafted Science Fiction film whose story is simple; yet it delves deep into humanity and what it means to be human. Seen through the eyes of […]
TV/Film | The Johnny Worricker Spy Series – Sequel and Triquel
Turks and Caicos and Salting the Battlefield made up the second and third parts of David Hare’s trilogy about an ex-MI5 agent respectively. In Turks and Caicos, Bill Nighy reprised his role of Johnny Worricker in the […]
Art | OVERTIME: Art and the Office – Seize's exploration of a career in art
Image: Seize OVERTIME pitches the bureaucratic environment of the archetypal office against the demiurgic context of the gallery. By allowing artists as cultural commentators to pick apart the office as a workplace and as a […]
TV | Game of Thrones, Two Swords – A thrilling sign of things to come
Warning: contains spoilers for seasons 1-3, and for season 4, episode 1 of Game of Thrones. Two Swords begins with a cracking bit of symbolism as Tywin Lannister melts down the Starks’ ancestral blade and throws […]